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intellectures · 1 year

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Die Tyrannei der Sprache

Postkoloniale Literaturen haben das Zeug, unseren Blick auf die Welt und auf uns selbst nachhaltig zu verändern. Bei ihrer Entstehung greifen aber oftmals Kräfte, die in der literaturkritischen Reflektion selbst kaum beachtet werden. Sie spiegeln in sich die Verhältnisse, aus denen sie hervorgegangen sind. Read the full article

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quotaholic · 3 years

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He needed time to adjust to real life, where real heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or by their accents...where there were no last-minerals reversals of fortune.

Laila Lalami

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jeannekwong · 4 years

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On this Thanksgiving weekend (Canada), returning to a novel about a Black slave who arrives with Spanish explorers on the Florida coast in 1500s. My goal is to read to chapter 8 #weekendreads #lailalalami #historicalfiction #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLuoPSBLlc/?igshid=zt82ch0j4x4f

#weekendreads #lailalalami #historicalfiction #bookstagram

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gasstationb · 5 years

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Have you been keeping up with the National Book Awards longlist announcements? All week they’ve been showing off the titles that have made the cut. I’ve managed to read a few, with others in my #tbr list. Have you read or been meaning to read any of these? What do you think? 📚 #Repost @nationalbookfoundation ・・・ ‪✨ It's the final list! ✨ We are absolutely thrilled to announce the ten books on the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. #NBAwards . . #bookstagram #books #literature #literaryawards #literaryaward #reading #amreading #fiction #gasstationburrito #lailalalami #colsonwhitehead #patronsaintsofnothing #onearthwerebrieflygorgeous #nationalbookaward https://www.instagram.com/p/B2o5A0bhhNe/?igshid=19t99ttbe4t7h

#tbr #repost #nbawards #bookstagram #books #literature #literaryawards #literaryaward #reading #amreading #fiction #gasstationburrito #lailalalami #colsonwhitehead #patronsaintsofnothing #onearthwerebrieflygorgeous #nationalbookaward

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2plan22 · 4 years

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RT @LailaLalami: Capitalism means I get charged $125 to cancel a $200 ticket by an airline that’s getting bailed out with my taxpayer money. 2PLAN22 http://twitter.com/2PLAN22/status/1246529164632641539

Capitalism means I get charged $125 to cancel a $200 ticket by an airline that’s getting bailed out with my taxpayer money.

— Laila Lalami (@LailaLalami) April 3, 2020

#OLASC16 RT @LailaLalami: Capitalism means I get charged $125 to cancel a $200 ticket by an airline

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superstitionrev · 3 years

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Book Giveaways: Upcoming Contests

Book Giveaways: Upcoming Contests @SimonBooks @daniellevalore @riverheadbooks @laurenosandler @randomhouse @DisVisibility @vintageanchor @lailalalami @pantheonbooks

Over the next few weeks, SR staff is running a contest on Twitter, and each prize will be a book from one of our interview authors for Issue 26.

The first contest will be Social Justice Book Recs, taking place on November 12-15. Tweet us a pic of your favorite social justice book and tell us why you love it. Two winners will be selected to receive a copy of The New Americanby Micheline…

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wolvesdevour · 6 years

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In The Hurricane’s Eye, The Clockmaker’s Daughter, & The Moor’s Account @bookofthemonth #bookofthemonth #books #bookstagram #nathanielphilbrick #lailalalami #katemorton #fiction #history https://www.instagram.com/p/BouzB30AATK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7uy67reoiy6b

#bookofthemonth #books #bookstagram #nathanielphilbrick #lailalalami #katemorton #fiction #history

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thisisthestart · 7 years

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The Power of Words: On Whiteness

Laila Lalami who wrote “The Identity of Whiteness” for the New York Times says this “At the heart of this anxiety is white people’s increasing awareness that they will become a statistical minority in this country within a generation. The paradox is that they have no language to speak about their own identity “white” is a category that has afforded them an evasion from race, rather then an opportunity to confront it” (pg. 45). When I read this passage I thought about Rachel Dolezal. I thought that maybe Dolezal under the pressure of going out into the community to bring awareness to people as a white woman, couldn’t confront herself for being white. That the only way to feel as if she is making progress with her work was to claim that she identifies as being black.

Nell Irvin Painter who wrote “What is Whiteness” also for the New York Times lead me to my thoughts about Dolezal while reading the other article because they say “Ms. Dolezal, believed that she could not be both anti-racist and white. Faced with her assumed choice between a blank identity or a malevolent one, she opted out of whiteness altogether” (pg 1).

I don’t understand how someone can just opt out of something they were born into. Dolezal was born white, yet she is choosing to identify as black. All of this makes no sense to me. I didn’t think that race was something someone got to choose. Is Dolezal just uncomfortable with being white because of all the tension that is going on in the country right now? I am just so lost as to why someone like Dolezal would choose to identify as a race that has faced so much hardship over the course of history. If anything wouldn’t it be advantageous of her to be an ally, using her privilege to spread more awareness on what is going on in the country.

What I also found interesting was what Lalami said about identity “White identity needs black identity in order to define itself, and therefore cannot exist with out it” (pg 43). Its almost as if saying one can’t live while the other survives. But in order for something to stand on its own, it has to be independent. And maybe white identity isn’t independent. But if people worked to make it independent, then maybe people would be more aware of privileges of being white or the disadvantages to being white. And if both identities white and black were separate from each other then there could be a solution to deconstructing the social construct of race as a whole.

#thepowerofwords #engl231 #writing #college #mcla #Berkshires #massachusetts #senior #graduation #lastsemester #race #onwhiteness #theidentitypoliticsofwhiteness #LailaLalami #whatiswhiteness #NellIrvinPainter

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dlozlami · 4 years

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A couple received an appraisal of $330,000 on their home, which was well below market value. When the wife removed pictures of Black family members and left the house, the second appraisal came in at $460,000, a 40% increase. https://t.co/nlbdVgphPL

— Laila Lalami (@LailaLalami) August 26, 2020

via @Dloz_Lami August 26, 2020 at 06:12PM

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timrileyauthor · 4 years

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Capitalism means I get charged $125 to cancel a $200 ticket by an airline that’s getting bailed out with my taxpayer money.

— Laila Lalami (@LailaLalami) April 3, 2020

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omarkn · 4 years

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Rand Paul goes into coronavirus quarantine with taxpayer-funded healthcare and paid sick leave, two programs he refuses to expand to other Americans.

— Laila Lalami (@LailaLalami) March 22, 2020

#IFTTT #Twitter

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jeannekwong · 4 years

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After reading The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong, the next #librarybook I will dive into is The Moor's Account by #lailalalami It tells the story of a black explorer who arrives in Florida in the 1500s. #weekendreads #historicalfiction #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXmHJMBeyB/?igshid=1t9g2onaqbff6

#librarybook #lailalalami #weekendreads #historicalfiction #bookstagram

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gasstationb · 5 years

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Episode 131 of ‘The Lost Geographer’ Podcast was a short but interesting conversation about the history of Egypt, as well as insight into contemporary culture. I say short but there was still a lot of information shared in the single podcast episode, and that is really tough to do, as the episode’s guest, Ali Nasser, pointed out, laughing at having to offer a bullet point or two to encapsulate thousands of years of cultural history. Plus, @theAliNasser (who has narrated a few audio books I enjoyed and shared) offers a few book suggestions to gain deeper insight into the people, history and culture of Egypt. 🎧 #alinasseronactsiders #gsbreadstheotheramericans #99nightsinlogar #jamiljankochai #theotheramericans #lailalalami #gsbquotesnaguibmahfouz 🎙 #gasstationburrito #gsbpodcasts #podcast #currentlylisteningto #cantreadallthetime #podysseyapp #echoed @podysseyapp #naguibmahfouz #palacewalk #thecairotrilogy #theyacoubianbuilding #alaaalaswany #cairothecityvictorious #maxrodenbeck #thelostgeographer #thelostgeographerpodcast #cairo #egypt #egyptianhistory #egyptianculture #egyptiancuisine #worldtraveler #worldtravel (at Cairo, Egypt) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1mbRUxB3PX/?igshid=a1rs3ri9fpma

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tribunamag · 4 years

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"Even a glance at current headlines makes it clear how deeply entrenched white-supremacist ideas about Americanness remain," writes @LailaLalami https://t.co/VxVY4cGVpk

— TIME (@TIME) January 27, 2020

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pavel-b-posts · 5 years

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#RT @jakpost: .@LailaLalami's The Other Americans: A Novel is entirely not a whodunit, even though the novel opens with the hit-and-run of a Moroccan immigrant that sets everything in motion in a quiet, small Californian town. (JP/Devina Heriyanto) #jakp… pic.twitter.com/FgECstUUNJ

— Om Bule (@ombule23) April 22, 2019

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keremabadi · 6 years

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RT @LailaLalami: The French magazine Charlie Hebdo depicts Mariam Poutegoux, the leader of the UNEF student union at the Sorbonne, as a monkey. This isn't satire, it's straight up racism: https://t.co/fv3Rnpaq1c

The French magazine Charlie Hebdo depicts Mariam Poutegoux, the leader of the UNEF student union at the Sorbonne, as a monkey. This isn't satire, it's straight up racism: pic.twitter.com/fv3Rnpaq1c

— Laila Lalami (@LailaLalami) May 27, 2018

#Islamophobia Report

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